DDOT: Pedestrian Crashes Increase In 2010

(Washington, DC)  —  The District Department of Transportation says the number of pedestrians struck by vehicles in the city last year was the highest since 2005, and the second highest in the last ten-years.  In 2010, vehicles struck 768 people in the District, killing 14 of them.  DDOT pedestrian program coordinator George Branyan tells WJLA-TV that the most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is at Martin Luther King and Howard Road where 13 people were struck and one was killed between 2008 and 2010.  Branyan says the city has made changes to the intersection and is retiming signals across town so the walk sign flashes before cars get the green.  He says it holds cars an extra three to four seconds giving pedestrians more time to get through the crosswalk.

Source: Metro Networks Inc.